Who discovered the uranium?

Hi Chandan, Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, in the mineral pitchblende (primarily a mix of uranium oxides) in 1789. Although Klaproth, as well as the rest of the scientific community, believed that the substance he extracted from pitchblende was pure uranium, i

Hi Chandan, Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus.